Ukraine in the EU, Crimea to Russia

The Supreme Council of Crimea, in turn, decided to join autonomy into Russia as its subject , the Ukrainian authorities expect that in the near future the European Union will call the date of signing an association agreement with Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Supreme Council of Crimea on Thursday first transferred a referendum on the status of autonomy on March 16, and then generally voted for its immediate entry into Russia.

Agencies give the text of the resolution of the Supreme Council of Crimea:

"The Supreme Council of the ARC decided:
1. To join the Russian Federation as a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
2. To appoint a General Khram referendum (including Sevastopol) on March 16, 2014, to which to bear the following alternative issues: 1) Are you for the reunification of Crimea with Russia on the rights of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation? 2) you are for restoring the action of the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea 1992 and for the status of Crimea as part of Ukraine? ”

The First Deputy Prime Minister of Autonomy Rustam Temirgaliev named the decision to enter the Crimea into the Russian Federation historical and said that 78 deputies out of 81 voted for him.

Post by Rustam Temirgaliev .
The head of the Majlis of Crimean Tatars Refat Chubarov said on the air of Gromadsky TV that the Crimean Tatars did not recognize and recognize any referendum in the conditions of occupation.

"In addition to the fact that there is no law on local referenda, the decision itself is absurd. They first decided to" join "into the Russian Federation, and the second - they put this issue for a referendum"

He noticed that the "decision" of the Supreme Council of the ARC O "joined Russia" was taken by madmen. "

Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with members of the Security Council of the country, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov told Interfax. According to him, the meeting was discussed at the meeting in Ukraine, including taking into account the decision adopted on Thursday by the Supreme Council of Crimea.

State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov told ITAR-TASS that the bill “on a simplified manner of the adoption of part of a foreign state to the Russian Federation could be adopted next week” on February 28.

“The bill wrote for Crimea, I say in open text,” the agency quoted Mironov as saying.

The explanatory note to the law says:

"Russia cannot extend its legislation beyond its own territory. However, Russia may and should foresee the possible consequences of the events that occur in Ukraine, directly indicating that the state authorities of Ukraine are in paralysis. The executive branch of the authorities is completely disorganized, the law enforcement agencies are inactive and are attacked by well -organized gangs of fascing elements. There is a fundamental principle of the fundamental principle. The sovereignty of the state as such is the presence of effective sovereign power (à Titre de Souveran), obliged to protect its citizens, observe their rights and freedoms.
According to the definition of international law, the concept of effective power means "actual, constant and peaceful exercise of state functions." This situation was recorded in the decision of the International Court (ISland of Palmas Arbitration 1928).
Deprived of state protection in their country, the regions of Ukraine, most of which are Russian -speaking citizens, are looking for ways to defend their independence, identity, referring primarily to Russia. In some regions, a movement began in favor of referenda in order to determine their state affiliation.
After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine exists within the current borders recognized by the international community and, above all, Russia. The same is fixed in the interstate agreements of Russia and Ukraine. It was Russia that guaranteed the territorial integrity of Ukraine along with several nuclear powers when the Soviet nuclear weapons were withdrawn from it. In fact, Russia, as a guarantor of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, is not only entitled, but is also obliged to take measures to support the people of Ukraine, which would push the Ukrainian authorities to restore proper order, without violence and discrimination against national minorities.
2. In relation to the regions of Ukraine, we are not talking about part of the state (as a subject of international law and as an apparatus of power supply), but about part of the territory and its population, relatively recently separated from Russia. Historically, as you know, for centuries these territories were positioned as part of a single country - the Russian Empire, then the Soviet Union.
Given their legislative assignment in 1991 to another state currently the prevailing legal significance is precisely the will of the relevant population. ”

In Brussels, at an emergency meeting of the heads of states and governments of the European Union, in connection with the latest events in Ukraine, the country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is present. The EU is ready to provide financial support to Ukraine in the form of loans and grants for 11 billion euros over the next two years. In Brussels, Yatsenyuk will also meet with NATO Secretary General. Last Wednesday, a bill was registered in the Verkhovna Rada, which provides for the resumption of the process of integration of Ukraine into NATO and the country's refusal of non -block status. The document may be considered by deputies at the next meeting of the parliament on March 11.

Pro -Russian demonstrations in Simferopol on March 5

Active contacts of the new Ukrainian authorities with the governments of Western countries did not go unnoticed by the pro -Russian authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the territory of which today is almost completely controlled by Russian troops. On Thursday, the Supreme Council of Autonomy decided to transfer a referendum on the status of autonomy from March 30 to 16. Moreover, in the new edition, one of the questions to the inhabitants of Crimea is posed directly: "Do you advocate for the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation as a subject of the Federation?"

American aircraft carrier "George Bush" on the Raid of the Greek port Piraeus

Meanwhile, Ukrainian media reports that the US Navy missile cruiser Mombai Bay entered the Black Sea. On the eve of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Andrei Parubiy, said that the approach to the Black Sea of the group of American warships will contribute to ensuring security throughout the region. "I can say that negotiations with our partners were held on this subject. We realize that the events that provokes the Russian Federation in Crimea can go far beyond the peninsula." Earlier it was reported that the aircraft carrier of the US Navy "George Bush" with a group of 17 smaller ships and three submarines is approaching the Black Sea.

Near the blocked Ukrainian military base in the pass

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine states that in Crimea, the targeted measures of Russia to destabilize the situation are still continuing in the Crimea and there remains a threat to the security of the civilian population. " Last night, the Russian military lifted the blockade of the Ukrainian units, but then returned to part of the objects and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular, to Kerch, Feodosia and in the village of Perevalny near Simferopol. The Russian military, with the support of local activists of pro -Russian organizations, not only block the location of the Ukrainian military, but trenches are digging around some of them. In Kyiv, they are also outraged by the fact that the new Crimean government decided to establish control not only over authorities, but also over the property of state -owned companies. Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov announced yesterday the change of head of Chernomorneftegaz, producing oil and gas in Ukrainian sections of the Black and Azov Seas.

Prime Minister of Crimea Sergey Aksenov Prime Minister

The Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv has already decided to detain the self -proclaimed Prime Minister of Crimea Sergei Aksenov and the speaker of the Supreme Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov on charges of encroachment on the Constitutional Studies of Ukraine. In addition, on the eve of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings against the commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Vice Admiral Alexander Vitko. He is charged with "incitement to state treason, as well as the organization of sabotage."

Crimean journalist Vladimir Prutula talks about the latest events and the situation in Crimea:

"Ochakov" is a written off ship, but this is a historical ship, a lot is connected with it, and Ukrainian sailors were very surprised that it was sacrificed

-Tonight, the Russian military towed from Sevastopol the legendary Soviet ship of the DPK Ochakov, with which a lot is connected in Soviet naval history. He was towed to the Bay of Donuzlav, the Donuzlavsky Lake, and was flooded at the entrance to the bay. Now the ship lies sideways at a depth of 11 meters, so he completely blocked the exit from the bay for Ukrainian ships, which are deployed in the Southern Naval Base of Ukraine, on Donuzlav. Russian ships that blocked this bay have gone. “Ochakov” is a written off ship, but this is a historical ship, a historical name, a lot is connected with it, and Ukrainian sailors were very surprised that it was sacrificed. There was also a message that in the same place, on Donuzlav, on the fire-fighting boat PZhK-1 there was an explosion. It is expected that today the military mission of OSCE observers will begin, they must arrive in Odessa, and, possibly, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow they will try to get to the Crimea. The mission consists of about 40 representatives of European countries, and they will look at the military situation in the Crimea whether there are Russian troops here or not.

- Do you say that in Crimea, a terrorist threat is real in Crimea today?

Leaders recommended activists to take their families from Crimea, fearing repressions from the Russian military

- They say about it, they are afraid of this, but this is in the background, the background only goes. They were very worried, especially the Crimean Tatars, so that something like this would not happen, so that they would not be accused of terrorist actions. In Crimea, the Khizb-Ut-Tahrir international movement actively operates, it works semi-legal here, is not officially registered, but has legal religious communities, holds its events and conferences. Since their image is not very good in the world, this topic has always been discussed, but now the leaders recommended activists to take out their families from Crimea, fearing repressions from the Russian military. In their environment, it is also said about the possibility of provocations that can be dumped on them.

- Is it possible to say that those who can leave Crimea leave, take their families?

- There is no large flow of refugees. I know many people who took their families from Simferopol, from Sevastopol to small settlements nearby or outside the Crimea. Many families of military personnel were taken to the regions of Ukraine, to Lviv, to the Western regions, to the Central Ukraine. There are Crimean Tatars, who also took out outside the Crimea. But there is no mass exit.